Art and Design Can Be Friends After All
When I first started this project I considered art to be non-conceptual and to be almost entirely expressive (bordering on ambiguous). What I found is that art and design are more similar than different, and in many cases there are no solid boundaries between the two. And even though I can't profess to understand clearly the definition of design versus art I do know that design is not exclusively conceptual and art not.

Style is Not a Bad Thing
As a designer I have always been taught to suppress my taste, my aesthetics, and my preferences for the sake of the objective of the project. Because of this I never properly developed my own style, and I was critical (and jealous) of designers who's styles were recognizable. About half way through this project I received some invaluable critique that helped me to recognize that I needed to find my style. It was at that point that the focus of this project shifted from an exercise in conceptual thinking to a quest to define my own style.

I Have Style... Or, At Least, I Have a Style.
I think the most rewarding part of this project was defining and developing a style I consider my own. And I feel very successful in the pursuit of defining my own style. Not that what I've come up with is necessarily new, but it is definitely me. I feel like my style is more mature, and even more importantly, I feel that I have tried and eliminated possible directions for developing my style, that didn't suit me.

The Key to Good Typography Is Patience
It would be nice to say that throughout the course of this project I became a better typographer, but I think it's more honest to say that I came to realize what it takes to be a good typographer. The key: meticulous attention to detail. As far as I learned, good type requires time and the ability to work with the individual parts to create a visually pleasing whole. And that's not an easy thing to do. I feel like I took the time to implement good type in only a handful of these compositions.